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Empowering citizens in collaborative environmental compliance assurance via MOnitoring, REporting and action

Project description

Eco crises demand innovative ways of involving citizens in environmental policy

Traditional conservation efforts struggle to reverse the alarming trend of escalating pollution, dwindling biodiversity and rampant deforestation, which characterise environmental crises. They have not yet harnessed the vital role of citizens and communities. In this context, the EU-funded MoRe4nature project prioritises collaboration, empowering citizens to play a pivotal role in environmental compliance assurance, marking a paradigm shift towards sustainable natural resource management. The project targets the barriers hindering the uptake of citizen science initiative (CSI) data and actions. Through a socio-technical approach, it aims to strengthen CSI capabilities, foster collaboration with authorities and integrate citizen generated data into environmental governance. This initiative envisions a global impact, engaging 162 CSIs, 98 authorities, and national agencies across Europe, Latin America, Asia, and Africa.

Objective

MoRe4nature aims to trigger transformative change in conservation efforts regarding zero pollution, biodiversity protection and deforestation prevention by including citizens and communities as key actors in collaborative environmental compliance assurance (ECA).
A key element in reversing the trend in environmental degradation is a change in environmental compliance assurance interventions. Citizen Science Initiatives (CSIs) present innovative ways of joint data and knowledge production and of empowering citizens in sustainable natural resource management. However, barriers to the uptake of Citizen Generated Data (CGD) and citizen actions in ECA have not been effectively tackled.
MoRe4nature will use a socio-technical approach to address these challenges and deepen the role of citizens and communities in ECA by i) strengthening the capacity of existing CSIs to provide relevant and valid data and understanding the importance of ECA, ii) fostering and supporting collaboration and partnerships among citizen science initiatives and authorities to cover data gaps and shape policy monitoring frameworks, iii) developing and testing tools to validate data obtained from CSIs, thus contributing to the integration of such data sources in environmental governance and in European Open Science Cloud, iv) making CGD available as a node in the Green Deal Data Space and v) channeling the urgency for concrete and immediate action of many citizens and communities by creating synergies between citizen science initiatives and LivingLabs for EU Missions, partnerships and other initiatives such as Fab Labs which share the values of sustainability transitions and which can help co-design actions as part of green and digital transformations.
MoRe4nature will ensure uptake and impact beyond the project duration by engaging 162 existing CSIs and 98 authorities and national agencies in 40 cases in Europe, Latin America, Asia and Africa as well as selected LivingLabs and Fab Labs in Europe.

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Funding Scheme

HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions

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Call for proposal

(opens in new window) HORIZON-CL6-2023-GOVERNANCE-01

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Coordinator

STICHTING IHE DELFT INSTITUTE FOR WATER EDUCATION
Net EU contribution
€ 1 010 775,00
Total cost
€ 1 010 775,00

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